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New planet geology map seen aiding mining and climate.
Scientists unveiled the first digital map of the earth's geology on Wednesday and said it could guide oil and gas exploration and mining or pinpoint sites for burying greenhouse gases.
Reuters.
07 August 2008
China's smogs have surprise climate benefit.
The pea-soupy fallout from Chinese industrial pollution could be reducing the country's contribution to climate change from at least one greenhouse gas.
New Scientist.
07 August 2008
UK climate protesters await coal showdown with E.ON.
Armed with compost toilets, solar panels and vegan food, around 700 activists are preparing to disrupt a coal-fired power station in England on Saturday in a protest against plans for two new units.
Reuters.
07 August 2008
The wilderness at risk from the latest dash for gas.
An application from global energy company BP outlines a proposal that has horrified local environmentalists: the installation of up to 1,500 gas wells in one of North America's wildest places.
London Guardian.
06 August 2008
What’s black and dirty and messing with the climate?
While soot has played a minor role compared with the rock stars of climate change – carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases – that perspective is changing.
Christian Science Monitor.
06 August 2008
Doyle wants state's downtown power plants to go coal-free.
Environmentalists say the decision by Gov. Jim Doyle to scrap the use of coal at the state's power plants in downtown Madison will help the city's long-suffering air and water.
Madison Capital Times.
06 August 2008
The year the world froze over.
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but nearly 13 millennia ago Europe was plunged suddenly into a deep freeze that lasted 1300 years--and the change happened in little more than a year, according to new data
Science.
06 August 2008
Forest fight over climate change.
Trees could hold the key to tackling climate change - but it's not clear whether the planet benefits from leaving them in the ground or chopping them down.
Australian Associated Press.
06 August 2008
Coal-fired power: Drax profits dented by rising cost of carbon credits.
Even as Drax pays the price for running the country's biggest single carbon-polluting power station, the company is in favour of Britain building more coal-fired power stations.
London Guardian.
06 August 2008
Plans for Kingsnorth push ahead despite 'clean coal' talks.
The energy company at the centre of a row over the proposed new Kingsnorth coal-fired power station is pushing ahead to finalise new building contracts.
London Guardian.
06 August 2008
Virgin forests more efficient at storing carbon.
Untouched natural forests store three times more carbon dioxide than previously estimated and 60 per cent more than plantation forests, a new Australian study of "green carbon" and its role in climate change says.
Reuters.
05 August 2008
Coal's future is safe - but what about the climate?
Despite environmentalists' concerns, energy companies say they are racing to meet demand for coal, especially in developing countries where the fuel is cheap and plentiful even in a year where coal price rises have outstripped those of oil.
Reuters.
05 August 2008
Class struggle in the new China.
Da Ba village in SW China is steep and verdant but swathed in the bitter smog of many small, coal-fired factories and power plants. As in other parts of China, the farmers are fighting to save their land from those who want to seize it in the name of progress and profit.
The Nation.
05 August 2008
Pollution, fuel costs among worries as more Chinese own cars.
China will eclipse the U.S. by 2015 to become the world's largest car market, say some analysts. Cars are the main culprits in China's chronically polluted air, and are responsible for China's fast-growing appetite for oil.
Dallas Morning News.
05 August 2008
Gas prices apply brakes to suburban migration.
As more and more families reconsider their dreams, land-use experts are beginning to ask whether $4-a-gallon gas is enough to change the way Americans have thought for half a century about where they live.
Washington Post.
05 August 2008
Gas mania will fuel B.C. economy.
Concern about global warming effects of coal-fired generating plants - some of the world's largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions - are driving a switch to gas generation.
Canwest News Service.
05 August 2008
NRG agrees to lower its pollution.
A coal-fired power plant planned for Jewett, Texas, won't increase the facility's total air pollution under an agreement announced Monday between NRG Energy Inc. and two key environmental groups.
Dallas Morning News.
05 August 2008
Green groups drop opposition to Texas coal plant.
Environmental groups have dropped opposition to the expansion of an NRG Energy Inc Texas coal plant after the company agreed to offset some of the unit's greenhouse gas emissions.
Reuters.
05 August 2008
Untouched forests store 3 times more carbon.
Untouched natural forests store three times more carbon dioxide than previously estimated and 60 percent more than plantation forests, said a new Australian study of "green carbon" and its role in climate change.
Reuters.
05 August 2008
IPCC 'wrong' on logging threat to climate.
Pristine temperate forest stores three times more carbon than currently estimated, and 60% more than plantation forests, concludes new research in Australia thatr suggests increasing their potential role in combating global warming and strengthening the need to protect them.
New Scientist.
05 August 2008
